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AWS announces EC2 instance attestation

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22 points·by patch_cable·10 bulan yang lalu·9 comments

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patch_cable
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I don’t think it is so binary.

If there is more friction to communicate with me I expect to hear from people less often.

As an example, my friends that only use Discord and not SMS or Signal definitely hear from me less frequently. It doesn’t mean we’re not friends, but we do communicate less frequently.
patch_cable
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
That’s a bit uncharitable. It made perfect sense to me. I also learned something about Japanese lacquer.
patch_cable
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
In the exact same configuration? Yes.
patch_cable
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The date of the notice is October 28th. The separation dates given in the letter are 90 days out from the date of the notice (for some technical reasons, some employees had a separation dates a bit further out.)
patch_cable
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The books are also physically really pleasant to hold and look at.

I’ve read each book they’ve published and enjoyed them all.
patch_cable
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I think they’re saying anyone could order “secure” checks with your account number on them.
patch_cable
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Excited to say I worked on this feature! (Standard disclaimer: thoughts and opinions are my own and may or may not be shared by my employer.)

To give an idea of the kinds of things you can do now:

  - Keys or other secrets can only be decrypted (via KMS) by an EC2 instance if it is running an approved AMI. 
  - You could build a certificate authority (CA) which only issues a certificate to an instance running an approved AMI. 
This is similar to the functionality that was available in Nitro Enclaves. However, enclaves came with restrictions (such as only being able to communicate through a vsock) that made them not a great fit for all use cases.